~Random Thoughts of an Insane Mind?
ORIGINAL CAPTION: My son in law today saw about 20 army guys with full combat gear walking down the street in Hayden, Idaho. He took pictures and asked them what they were doing. ‘They said they were just training. One of the troopers was carrying a saw or squad automatic [...]
Victoria Cross holder condemns government failure to care for veterans suffering post-combat stress.
By Terri Judd~The Independent
The Army’s most decorated serving war hero has accused the Government of failing soldiers suffering from mental trauma resulting from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for twice saving [...]
~Campaign for Liberty
Congressman Paul on the importance of constitutionally limited government, sound money, individual liberty, personal responsibility and federalism. The speech addresses the welfare state, our extravagant and counterproductive foreign policy, the move toward world government, regulatory and socialist attacks on property rights, the perils of nationalization and the great economic destruction caused by the [...]
By Linn Cohen-Cole~OpEd News
Hillary Clinton’s platform for a massive and centralized “Food Safety Department” did not die when her campaign for president did. Instead, it has been introduced by friends of hers as a series of “food safety” bills which are being moved rapidly through Congress now.
One was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, [...]
Bruce Schneier is the chief security technology officer at BT and a celebrated writer and speaker on privacy, cryptography and security issues.
~BBC NEWS
Welcome to the future, where everything about you is saved. A future where your actions are recorded, your movements are tracked, and your conversations are no longer ephemeral. A future brought to [...]
By Karen DeYoung and Joby Warrick~Washington Post
CIA Director Leon Panetta said yesterday that U.S. aerial attacks against al-Qaeda and other extremist strongholds inside Pakistan would continue, despite concerns about a popular Pakistani backlash.
“Nothing has changed our efforts to go after terrorists, and nothing will change those efforts,†Panetta said in response to questions about CIA [...]
By Sayed Salahuddin~Reuters
Six people were hurt when Afghan police opened fire on demonstrators who claimed U.S. troops had desecrated a Koran during a raid on a mosque.
The incident took place in Deh Khodaidad village in Ghazni, southwest of the capital, Kabul.
Police said a government team had been sent to investigate claims that foreign troops had [...]
~Reuters
California’s unemployment rate rose to 10.1 percent in January, its highest level in a quarter century, as recession tightened its grip on the most populous U.S. state.
Weakness in the housing and consumer sectors helped drive the jobless rate up from a revised 8.7 percent in December and 6.1 percent in January 2008 and to above [...]
By Bob Egelko~San Francisco Chronicle
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is sending strong signals that President Obama – who as a candidate said states should be allowed to make their own rules on medical marijuana – will end raids on pot dispensaries in California.
Asked at a Washington news conference Wednesday about Drug Enforcement Administration raids in [...]
By Muriel Kane~Raw Story
Describing themselves as the spark of a “new conservative counterculture,” several thousand anti-tax protesters took to the streets in over thirty cities on Friday to object to President Obama’s plans to counter the growing economic crisis with government spending.
The extensive media coverage of the event was perhaps disproportionate to the actual size [...]
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane~Raw Story
The conservatives attending this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference are generally hawkish when it comes to foreign policy, but they applauded Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) on Friday when he told them the US has no choice but to get out of Iraq.
“Part of the reasons why we lost this [...]
By Alexi Mostrous and Richard Ford~Times Online
Laws that allow officials to monitor the behaviour of millions of Britons risk “hardwiring surveillance†into the British way of life, the country’s privacy watchdog has warned.
Richard Thomas told The Times that “creeping surveillance†in the public and private sectors had gone “too far, too fast†and risked undermining [...]
City of Southampton to get first water fluoridation project in 25 years despite 78% opposition in consultation
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By James Meikle~London Guardian
Health authorities are to prepare for the extension of mass fluoridation of drinking water to millions of people in a drive to improve dental health, following approval for the [...]
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~Spiegel Online
Anger rises in Germany as the economy falls. Trade unions and globalization-critical protesters are planning demonstrations in Berlin and Frankfurt under the banner: “We’re not paying for your crisis.†Alexis Passadakis, 31, an activist from the group Attac, tells SPIEGEL what’s wrong with the system.
SPIEGEL: What do you mean with your battle cry, “We’re [...]
~AP News
Fannie Mae said Thursday it needs $15.2 billion in government aid — though that figure is expected to grow — because it lost nearly $59 billion last year as the foreclosure crisis mushroomed.
The Washington-based mortgage finance company hemorrhaged $25.2 billion, or $4.47 per share, in the fourth quarter. That compares with a loss of [...]
~Herald Sun
“Natural living†advocates unveil their latest planet-saving invention – the reusable toilet wipe.
Surely it’s time global warming believers marked their houses with some sign, a green pentangle or something, as a warning to visitors to enter at their own risk.
~HAT TIP JOSEPH
By Sean Fallon~Gizmodo
New York is joining Washington State and North Carolina by offering motorists the option to purchase an Enhanced Driver’s License (EDL) with an embedded RFID chip. The license will enable travelers to pass in and out of Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean without having to use a traditional passport. The [...]
